The Origin: The Tree and Me & The Unborn
8Q, Singapore Art Museum
The Origin: The Tree and Me & The Unborn
Pulped newspaper, Vegetable and Plant Material, Henna, Coffee, Turmeric, Pine cones, Cypress seeds, Assorted seeds and pods
Dimensions Variable
Year 2017
Old trees exist longer than the passing of generations. It feels as though they have eavesdropped on the dreams and aspirations of those who lived in another age, just as they listen to the chatter of those who wander below their branches today. In the midst of massive change in our environment and ways of life what really changes for us? The pace of change in today’s world is rapid, yet it is perhaps these ancient trees which hold answers to eternal questions.
Newspaper with its myriad urban stories is dissolved into the work reflecting upon the fact that our elaborate urban lives and its stories will ultimately be subsumed into the natural order. Newspaper represents ideas of the everyday and the political as well as the ephemeral. Organic materials (henna, turmeric, coffee, sand, grass, seeds, vegetable matter, beeswax) too find their way into the work embodying ideas of instability and transformation.
Twenty five thousand seeds and pods from the forests of Spain line the walls, encapsulating pure potentiality. The potential for growth may remain dormant yet is far more than what is visible to the human eye.
Newspaper with its myriad urban stories is dissolved into the work reflecting upon the fact that our elaborate urban lives and its stories will ultimately be subsumed into the natural order. Newspaper represents ideas of the everyday and the political as well as the ephemeral. Organic materials (henna, turmeric, coffee, sand, grass, seeds, vegetable matter, beeswax) too find their way into the work embodying ideas of instability and transformation.
Twenty five thousand seeds and pods from the forests of Spain line the walls, encapsulating pure potentiality. The potential for growth may remain dormant yet is far more than what is visible to the human eye.
To find out about my inspiration and processes for this work refer to my blog post :The Making of "The Tree and Me"
They Are of the Earth
Affordable Art Fair Entrance Installation, Singapore
They Are of the Earth
Pulped newspaper, Vegetable and Plant Material, Henna, Coffee, Turmeric
Dimensions Variable
2015
Pulped newspaper, Vegetable and Plant Material, Henna, Coffee, Turmeric
Dimensions Variable
2015
This installation is based on observations of nature and its relationship to urban life. It is made of newspaper dissolved into organic materials like vegetable matter, leaves, grass, henna, turmeric, coffee. The work was built up one layer at a time, waiting for each layer to dry before the next one could be applied. The structure took months to complete, mimicking the way nature and its processes are unresting and also unhurried. The smaller sculptural forms scattered at the base are each the negative form within my fist, reflecting upon the futility of trying to grasp things which would inevitably slip through ones fingers
The Tree and Me
LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
The Tree and Me
Pulped newspaper, Vegetable and Plant Material, Henna, Coffee, Turmeric
Dimensions Variable
Year 2014
It is often rejuvenating to experience again the presence of old trees, forests, ecosystems that function in accordance with their own internal order. But what if we were to reverse the roles of the observer and the observed? Old trees have existed for many generations. They have eavesdropped on the dreams and aspirations of those who lived in another age just as they listen to the chatter of those who wander below their branches today. The pace of change in today’s world is rapid, yet it is perhaps these ancient trees which hold answers to eternal questions. In the midst of massive change in our environment and ways of life what really changes for us?
Newspaper with its myriad urban stories is dissolved into the work reflecting upon the fact that our elaborate urban lives and its stories will ultimately be subsumed into the natural order. Newspaper represents ideas of the everyday and the political as well as the ephemeral. Organic materials (henna, turmeric, coffee, sand, grass, seeds, vegetable matter, beeswax) too find their way into the work embodying ideas of instability and transformation.
Newspaper with its myriad urban stories is dissolved into the work reflecting upon the fact that our elaborate urban lives and its stories will ultimately be subsumed into the natural order. Newspaper represents ideas of the everyday and the political as well as the ephemeral. Organic materials (henna, turmeric, coffee, sand, grass, seeds, vegetable matter, beeswax) too find their way into the work embodying ideas of instability and transformation.
To find out about my inspiration and processes for this work refer to my blog post :The Making of "The Tree and Me"
They Are of the Earth,
Pulped newspaper, Vegetable and Plant Material, Henna, Coffee, Turmeric
90 x 80 x 20 cm
2015